Is it just me or is the game just not fun...

The speed/rush/saturation of the game is now hopefully at it's peak. If it continues to increase into the next league then I think my time with the game will be done. If PoE2 shows signs of following the same path then I will not be investing any further.

I got sent home earlier in the week with suspected Coronavirus. The boss will not let me back into work, so you would think I would be playing PoE as much as possible? I'm not though and it's the first league in a long time that I really cannot bring myself to play it. The new Atlas is a chore and a big step backwards.

The fun and enjoyment is vanishing with every new league. I hate being all doom and gloom but I really hope GGG start to read this stuff and listen before it's too late.

They will prob look at all the £ rolling in and ignore miserable old gits like me anyway :D

They need to BALANCE their game ASAP.
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This post seems to be trying to address both the normal game and the current league.
For me, the league is fine now after update, feels rewarding enough and for me its fine the difficulty. its fine to have sometimes a fast paced league/challenge imo.

when it comes to the actual game, there are alot of good and valid points addressed here. what i see is this:

1. they are adding SO MANY affix / effects and ppl just dying random and u dont know wth is going on lool, it feels MESSY. There should be ways to counter every affix, or atleast know what is going on. u know how some other arpg the affix are SO NOTABLE , clear , u know what is going on and what to do, like laser on floor , moving in circles and clearly seen. instead they add like 999 affix that seem like over kill and messy, things we cant counter with gear and cant SEE or know wtf will happen lul. get blown up ONE HIT KO, and u never saw what it was lmao. they should add clear way to know what happened maybe like every affix have some type of clear visual or way to know what killed u. like when u die, see a text "corrupted blood has killed you" lmao. having 999 affix in delirirum is fine tho imo, i mean its a mechanic u are not forced to play it, but in normal gameplay i think it should be different. take MORE SKILL than just "boom u dead bruh".

2. yes endgame is hard to sirus LOL, but then again shouldnt it be? why have an ez endgame then done with game nothing to do , endgame should be a challenge imo. but sure they could make more builds viable i guess.

3. they are starting to become messy not only on affix but on mechanics, u have so much crap lol. alva / blight / delirium / meta / legion etc.. like damn. lol, so many things that can appear on a map, what they gonna do keep adding more and more? seems like overkill, maybe find a diff way to add more content than just more mechanics, like same sh** but diff toilet xD.

anyway, i love this league alot but sure i agree the actual overall game needs a bit of more "order" if u will.
For me only first couple years were good. I lost interest in Generation 3 save Abyss and Mines league. It is what is is. Games get old or we'd still be playing D2..actually D1 even. Anyway you get my point. I have not even tried this league playing other games like Doom Eternal right now.
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Last edited by Aim_Deep#3474 on Mar 22, 2020, 11:36:09 PM
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DumpsterJedi wrote:
OK before all the fan boys jump on me I’m just simply asking. Last league I’ve never had so much fun and I worked up to 39 challenges. I’ve never played the game so much and before you suggest that I am burnt out I can switch over to standard and still really enjoy playing.

But there’s something about this league and I can’t put my finger on it but I’m not having any fun at all, in fact the game feels like going to work. I’m about to close my client and probably not sign on for a while again. But I wanted to ask is anybody else feeling this or is it just me.

I can’t put my finger on it really, I just know that I get excited to play, and I sit down to play and after 10 minutes I just feel like doing something else. It’s disappointing because I have a lot more free time than normal and I was really looking forward to doing as many challenges in achievements I can but I am just not enjoying playing league at all.

Progress is slow and my build doesn’t seem to be accomplishing as much as I’d hoped. Many things that I had planned out ended up getting nerfed but I’ve had all that before and managed to adapt.

I do know that one of the frustrations I’m having is not being able to use any of the pricing tools which seem to be off-line 90% of the time but I have enough stash space I can just toss them in there and wait till later so it’s not just that.

I am not trying to complain about the game which I love and I’ve been playing since beta. But I’ve never actually had this little enjoyment in playing even when I was new and really sucked at the game. So I’m honestly trying to find out if anybody else is feeling a lack of enjoyment and what they might be able to see is the cause.

Thank you in advance for keeping the discussion civil.


Its the opposite for me, hated tower defense, hated metamorph as it was basically not a mechanic.

I would really love this league if it was smooth to play, however i still enjoy it 100 times more than blight or meta.
Yes I agree. It is not the content. The content is interesting and fun. It is very likely the mechanics of delirium. Feels like a chore to ensure that I must run through the map trying to outrun some mist like a crazy person ignoring everything else in the map. And just imagine how many times I need to do it to.

But of course they are not "forcing" u to do it because you can skip the delirium portal. Just feels that way.

The timer...
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AbilityPoints wrote:
This league feels like it's been designed to kill players who don't go fast, if you dawdle you get killed by explosive mobs who rush at you (who can be missed amongst the chaos going on) exacerbated by the timer. GGG loves to kill players it seems, as if they punishing us for playing the game.


You totally get the point.

Most of the mobs seem design for players that can move attack, move attack. Even if max resistances and phy reduction, we still die if we can tanking.

Even Molten Shell has been secretly nerfed in this league now. Damage now goes through to Molten Shell and it is not chaos damage.

POE is very old. I hear the OP, same with me. I dont like each league, I dont like this game, I come here to play 2 weeks max, I die 3 times in ssf hc I quit the game and play something else (P.S yes at this point i ripped my 3rd char on 80level) and im not mad or sad or angry, I just live up with it.. But the game is sh*t (im sorry) mechanics are crap, too much stuff on the screen always kills you, if not you, then kills your gpu or fps.. Fastest clear speed is the only way to play it, if you slow or stop collecting sh*t on the ground while delirium here it comes : seeking blobs that deals WTF damage, nearly killing you. yeah I could go and go, write and write, but as long as theres players playing the game will thrive, and they make such content over and over. God, I remember times when Act2 boss was pain in da arse, people were ripping over and over to vaal, then malachai and then all the new affixes,mobs,effects,timers,ultra boses, phases bosses and bad performance came to the end.

See you all in 3.9.2

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